If you've given the newly-released Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 a spin, you've noticed that there aren't a lot of eye-popping new features. However, there are some subtle improvements that make it a nice upgrade. After the jump, screenshots of the few things I noticed.

In addition to built-in spellchecker shown above, Fx 2.0 also has close buttons on every individual tab - a much-needed feature (especially on Mac OS X.)

There's also better (but still not great) RSS integration. When you click on a site's feed icon (at the far end of the address bar), a preview page with the option to choose your feed reader appears.

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You can bypass this page by permanently setting your feed reader of choice, to automatically subscribe to a feed. Set your preferred reader using this dialog (notice the Bloglines, Google Reader and My Yahoo! defaults):

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Finally, the new History menu maintains a list of recently-closed tabs with the option to re-open them.

Power extension users will note that most of this functionality is available in 1.5 with a few extensions, but now that these features come by default and are supported by Mozilla, more users will benefit from them.